Top Poetry Quotes

She wildly burned for the one she loved and he stood there watching, hoping he too would catch a blaze from the violence stirring in her heart.

More than once I should have lost my soul to radicalism if it had been the originality it was mistaken for by its young converts.

Poetry Definition

(n.) The art of apprehending and interpreting ideas by the faculty of imagination; the art of idealizing in thought and in expression.

(n.) Imaginative language or composition, whether expressed rhythmically or in prose. Specifically: Metrical composition; verse; rhyme; poems collectively; as, heroic poetry; dramatic poetry; lyric or Pindaric poetry.

A poet dares to be just so clear and no clearer he approaches lucid ground warily like a mariner who is determined not to scrape his bottom on anything solid. A poet's pleasure is to withhold a litt...

Kiss me, so long but as a kiss may last!

In my more rebellious days I tried to doubt the existence of the sacred, but the universe kept dancing and life kept writing poetry across my life. (Beyond Religion, p. 81)

You know you possess the soul of an artist when, each time you sit down to create, the whole universe lays itself at your feet.

Sure, we thought the acresThat we tilled were sacred,But how could we have knownThat wheat can haunt like ghosts

unsignificantlyoff the coastthere wasa splash quite unnoticedthis was Icarus drowning

Unjustified ambition kills value,Kills someone else's desire to fly, Cuts their wings, sucks their air.If there is nothing else, it eats its own life.

To elevate the soul, poetry is necessary.

I'll gladly settle for amnesia if I had to live in a world where I couldn't remember how much you mean to me.

I always deemed myself a one chance person, if you hurt me or betray me, then I'm done with you. As I grew older and the scars of wisdom imprinted on my soul and chest, I realized a second chance took...

Live for everything, or die for nothing

Some people complain there are too many people on earth, Some people complain about secret societies, Some people accuse others of not being able to wake up early. Almost all people complain about som...

We are the living whole of the fragments from the things we've experienced and people we've encountered. Each interaction changes us in a subtle or massive way. The masterpiece we are sheds it's weath...

If poetry dies, nothing lives !

Theater and poetry were what helped people stay alive and want to go on living.

Great poetry is always written by somebody straining to go beyond what he can do.

From love's plectrum arisesthe song of the string of lifeLove is the light of lifelove is the fire of life

If poets often commit suicide, it is not because their poems are bad but because they are good. Whoever heard of a bad poet committing suicide? The reader is only a little better off. The exhilaration...